Elaeocarpus bojeri, locally known as a bois dentelle ('lace wood' in French), descriptive of its delicate white flowers)[2] is a species of flowering plant in the Elaeocarpaceae family.[1] The species was once only found close to an Indian temple at Grand Bassin in Mauritius, where fewer than ten individuals were known to grow in the 1990s.[1][2]

Elaeocarpus bojeri
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Oxalidales
Family:	Elaeocarpaceae
Genus:	Elaeocarpus
Species:	E. bojeri
Binomial name
Elaeocarpus bojeri R.E. Vaughan

Conservation

It is not threatened because of being exploited itself, rather because its environment is being overrun by more commercially attractive alien species such as guava and Litsea monopetala.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of Elaeocarpus species

References

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